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E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Belles-lettres on the rules for proper behavior
by monarchs. Dedicated to Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent. The author has drawn
inspirations from similar works by Tusi, Husayn Vaiz Kashifi, and
Dawwani.

The author of this book is better known to history as
İsmail İsfendiyaroğlu, brother-in-law of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II who conquered
Constantinople in 1453. İsmail wrote this book on religious precepts after
the sultan removed him from the rule of the city of Sinop on the Black Sea coast.

Scope and Content

On religious practices and doctrine such
as ablution, prayer, mosques, and religious holidays. Translated from
various sources for the benefit of "those who do not know Arabic and Persian".
Author's name contains two other words which, transliterated by Arabic standard,
read "Yaman
Jandār {which is Turkish "Çandar"}". The original dates to the early fifteenth-century
(DP reference below). [See also number 115]

Collection of biographical stories about an early
fifteenth-century Sufi shaykh by the name of Emir Sultan Buhari (Sayyid Muḥammad al-
Bukhārī). The author gives the date of 1562 for the composition (3b). The text is not
the same as that of Senâyî's.

Translation of an Arabic work by his brother
(listed in Kâtip Çelebi's Kashf al-ẓunūn as
Maghārib al-zamān li-ghurūb al-ashyā’ fī al-'ayn wa al-'iyān),
completed during the reign of Mehmet II in February 1451 in the city of Gallipoli (343a). Islam: doctrine and belief
regarding the world, God, prophets, angels, signs of judgment day, etc.

Physical Description: Layout: 15 lines of text per page.
Script: Naskh.
Binding: Black cloth and pink paper over boards quarter binding; fore-edge flap.
Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages in red, all within red
borders; several pages torn (chewed) from the top edge; some stains;
leaves from the beginning and the end of the manuscript are missing.

Scope and Content

This is an early Turkish translation of
an Arabic original entitled Futūḥ al-Shām by Wāqidī (747 or 8-
823).

The author of this book is better known to history as
İsmail İsfendiyaroğlu, brother-in-law of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II who conquered
Constantinople in 1453. İsmail wrote this book on religious precepts after
the sultan removed him from the rule of the city of Sinop on the Black Sea coast.

Islam: doctrine and belief regarding the world, God,
prophets, angels, signs of judgment day, etc. A verse translation into
Turkish of the author's Maghārib al-zamān, translated also by his
brother into Turkish prose (Envar ül-âşikîn. See mss. 11
above). The verse translation was completed in August 1449 (276b).

Islam: Hanafi doctrine/popular belief. Translated into
Turkish by the author from the Persian work of 'Abd al-'Azīz Fārsī (2a)
covering topics such as faith, prayer, lawful and unlawful things, etc. Same as
mss. 10 above and 36, 43, 56, and 67 below.

Box 9

Manuscript number: 25
Title (Romanized): [Şerh-i Beharistan-i Câmi]
Title (English): [Commentary on the Bahāristān of Jāmī]
Date: 1593 April

A translation of the Koran. However, a note on the front
endpaper, and Dānish’pazhūh identify the text as the translation of the
exegesis of Abū al-Layth al-Ṣamarqandī (see mss. 21
above). The original was composed in 1689.

He is also listed as Kadιzāde,
Ahmed ibn Muhammed Emin Efendi, 1720-1782 (Hollis).

Scope and Content

A compilation and translation into Turkish on
matters of belief in God, angels, scriptures, prophets, judgment day, and
destiny. A number of Arabic books with that title (but apparently not the present text) in Kâtip
Çelebi's Kashf al-ẓunūn.

Islam: doctrine and belief regarding the world, God,
prophets, angels, signs of judgment day, etc. A verse translation into
Turkish of the author's Maghārib al-zamān, translated also by his
brother into Turkish prose (Envar ül-âşikîn. See mss. 11
above). The verse translation was completed in August 1449 (263a).

This is the Turkish translation of
Jami's (1414-1492) biography of Sufis entitled Nafaḥāt al-uns min
haḍarāt al-quds. The Turkish translation was undertaken in 1521 in
commemoration of a victory of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent in Hungary.

Physical Description: Layout: Average 36 lines of text per page.
Script: Riqā.
Binding: Brown leather with marble paste-downs.
Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, number given to each author in red pencil; incomplete table of
contents and supplied title on front end-papers.

Scope and Content

This is an abridgement of the sixteenth-
century biography of Ottoman poets written by Âşιk Çelebi, 1520-
1572.

Identity of the author derived from the Türkiye Diyanet Vakfι
Islâm ansiklopedisi.

Scope and Content

The author writes that he compiled a number of
authorities and translated them into Turkish for the religious guidance of a number of
ladies who used to refer to him. It covers issues such as
the legal rights of wives, the life-story of the daughter of the prophet, rights of parents
over children, rights of women over men, and that of men over women, etc.

A Turkish commentary on the Koranic chapter 18 (the cave),
but also containing many stories about Moses, originally begun 1594 under the
Ottoman Sultan Murad III but then dedicated (4b) to Mehmet III (1595-1603) after the former's death.

This is a Turkish translation of Ibn
Khallikān's (1211-1282) biography of Muslim notables. The translation was
undertaken in 1676 and was dedicated to a vizier named Mustafa Paşa which must be
Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Paşa who served as vizier from 167683. Manuscript in
several hands.

Author identified as Eyyub b. Halil in Türkiye Diyanet Vakfι
Islâm ansiklopedisi, and as Hâc Abdullah Eyyubî in the
manuscript.

Scope and Content

Sufism. The first title is a translation
into Turkish of an Arabic original called Tuḥfat al-aḥbāb fī al-sulūk
ilá ṭarīq written by an author named Shaykh Aḥmad Ṭarabizūnī (Trabzoni).
This book was itself an exposition on another book called Silsilat al-dhahab written
by Shaykh Muḥammad Murād al-Bukhārī.

Ottoman history. The main title is a Turkish
translation of a Persian original. This is a genealogy of kings and prophets
including the Ottoman House. The text is dedicated to Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent (r. 1520-
1566). However, the list of Ottoman sultans is written up to the enthronement of Selim II in
1566 and is abruptly ended. This title spans leaves 36b-50b but is
incomplete and only contains one leaf from the family tree of the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt and the
leaves covering the Ottoman House up to Selim II.
The second title is a chart of genealogy of kings and prophets extracted from the
history of Nişancι (see mss. 48 below). It culminates in the name of
Murad IV (r. 1623 to 1640 ). However, a second hand has added in the margin a list of the noteworthy events of
his reign. Then, on the following list, later and less elaborate illustrations of various sultans has been added to continue
the
chronology up to the reign of Sultan Mahmud II (180839) ).

A note on 1b writes that the charts were copied from the histories of
Nişancι Mehmed Paşa (16th century). The most elaborate of all illustrations is for Süleyman
the Magnificent (r. 1520-1566). However, the last illustration is for the name of Murad IV (r. 1623 to 1640 ). The text is
incomplete
and is missing several leaves from the beginning.

Identity of the author derived from Kâtip Çelebi's Kashf al-
ẓunūn. He seems to be the son of the famous historian of the Ottoman empire who died in 1520.

Scope and Content

This is the Turkish translation of a Persian-language exegesis of the
Koran by Ḥusayn Vāiẓ Kāshifī (d. 1504 or 5) entitled Mavāhib-i alīyah. The present manuscript seems to be the second of two
volumes and contains the last few verses of Chapter 18
of the Koran (Mary) to the end.

The author of this translation is other than Sinan Paşa (1440-1486), whose
Turkish translation is more well-known and is noticed in Kâtip Çelebi's Kashf al-
ẓunūn.

Scope and Content

This is a very early Ottoman translation of the biography of Sufi masters
by Farīd al-Dīn Aṭṭār completed, or copied, during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan
Murat II. A number of short treatises are appended to 1a-16b.

Fuzulî’s account of the martyrdom of the third Shiite
imam Ḥusayn ibn Alī. The text is mainly a translation of the Persian-language Rawẕat al-shuhadā' by
the Timurid author Ḥusayn Vǟiẓ Kāshifī (d. 1504 or 5.)

This is a translation of the history of Ṭabarī into Ottoman
Turkish. The author seems to have used the older Persian translation of Ṭabarī's Arabic original. The statements in
Kâtip Çelebi's Kashf al-ẓunūn that the Turkish translation enjoyed popularity among "the
common people of Rūm (Anatolia)" is confirmed by the home town of the Scribe--i.e. Konya in Central
Anatolia.

The author calls himself Mustafa b. Celal and has dedicated the work to
Süleyman the Magnificent in the city of Edirne in 1551 (2b).

Scope and Content

Stories of the life of the prophet Muḥammad, emphasizing his
ascension to heaven. The text is based on Múin al-Din Farahī's Máārif al-nubuwwah
fī madārij al-futuwwah. As Kâtip Çeleb has noted, the present title is different from a second
(and later) Turkish translation of this text by Altιparmak Mehmet (d. 1623).

Identity of the author derived from the Türkiye Diyanet Vakfι
Islâm ansiklopedisi.

Scope and Content

The author writes that he compiled a number of authorities and
translated them into Turkish for the religious guidance of a number of ladies who used to refer to him. It covers issues such
as
the legal rights of wives, the life-story of the daughter of the prophet, rights of parents over children, rights of women
over men,
and that of men over women, etc.

Islam: doctrine and belief regarding the world, God, prophets, angels,
signs of judgment day, etc. A verse translation into Turkish of the author's Maghārib al-zamān, translated also
by his brother into Turkish prose (Envar ül-âşikîn. See mss. 11 above). The verse translation
was completed in August 1449 (263a).

This is a commentary on the fifteenth-century poem by
Yazιcιoğlu Mehmet (d. 1451) called Muhammediye. The author was commissioned to clarify the
archaic language of the text by a certain Ak Baba who used to read it in the Selimiye mosque in Istanbul
(2a).

Islam: Hanafi doctrine/popular belief. Translated into Turkish by the
author from the Persian work of 'Abd al-'Azīz Fārsī (2a) covering topics such as faith, prayer, lawful
and unlawful things, etc. To this is added a brief epistel entitled er-Risâletü’l-
mübeşşire li’t-tâifetü’l-mübteliyyis’-
sabire.

A treatise in verse and prose on tenets and requirements of Islam but
with a tinge of Sufism. It includes several Koranic stories. 5 leaves from another manuscript, with a date of 1758, are glued
to the
back. These include an illustration of Mecca, pointing out certain areas with instruction on what to do at each
spot.

This a Turkish translation of the biography of Sufi masters originally
composed in Persian by Ḥusayn Vāiẓ Kāshifī (d. 1504 or 5). The translation is
dedicated to the Ottoman Sultan Murad III (r. 1574-95).

The first tile, composed (23b) in 1706, is a commentary by Hakki on a
discourse by the early Anatolian mystic Hacι Bayram Velî. The manuscript contains four other works the last
three of which are but a leaf or two long and consist of a list of dates, a genealogy of Hacι Bektaş
Velî (another early mystic) and some poems by Niyazî (d. 1693 or 4). The second and much longer title is by
Hakki (53a) and is his Turkish translation of the Arabic work of the Sufi thinker Ibn Arabī.

This title, attributed to Firdevsi-i Rumi (b. 1453), is quoted in OM in verse, but the
present manuscript has both verse and prose (see Osmanlι Müellifleri, V. II: 105).

Scope and Content

A portion of a fantastic tale of prophets and demons and heroes of all
sorts. The story seems influenced by Tabari's history especially in the sections dealing with Biblical prophets and Sasanian
kings. Present mss. Transcribed by several scribes. A work of the same title is attributed to Firdevsi-i Rumi (b. 1453), but
that
work is supposed to be in verse and the present manuscript is a prose tale (see Osmanlι Müellifleri, V. II:
105).

Treatise on good behavior composed, according to Kâtip
Çelebi's Kashf al-ẓunūn, in 1556. The author begins by mentioning the goodly names of God
(Tercüme-i esma-i hasna), and then proceeds to chapters on faith, morality, honesty, worship, humility, etc. It contains
narrative illustrations from the lives of prophets (ex. Moses), Sufi masters (ex. Ibrāhīm Adham), and kings (ex.
Anūshīrvān and Maḥmūd of Ghazna).

Poem in verse on the basic concepts and requirements of Islam. It is
based on a synonymous work by Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr Imam Zadah (1097 or 8-1177 or 8). The present title had been
composed in 1506 and dedicated to the ottoman Sultan Bayezid II (r. 14811512).

A collection of sample letters for official governmental business,
including letters of famous personages such as Yusuf Nabi. The name of scribes at the end of the letters are from the original
letters not the entirety of the present manuscript.

A list of forty hadiths with commentary in Turkish. The original was
composed in February or March of 1689, during the reign of Sultan Süleyman II (168791), and was dedicated to the
vezir Mustafa Pasa who was in office from May 30, 1688 to November 7, 1689.

Belles-lettres on the rules for proper behavior by monarchs. Dedicated to
Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent. The author has drawn inspirations from similar works by Tusi, Husayn Vaiz Kashifi,
and Dawwani.

A list of Sufi masters probably from a Naqshbandi perspective, dedicated
to a certain Yusuf Ziya Pasha (perhaps the same as Yusuf Ziyaüddin Pasha who was vizier of the Ottoman Empire in
the late 18th early 19th centuries).

Box 33

Manuscript number: 98
Title (Romanized): el-hücce’l-baliğe
Title (English): The mature argumentation
Alternative titles: ﺍﻟحﺠﺘ
ﺍﻟﺐاﻟﻍﺘ
Date: 1721 August or after

Islam: work on religious requirements in rhyming Turkish couplets.
Author had begun the work (9a) during the reign of Murad III (r. 1574-1595). Written with the help of a certain Abdülgaffar
b. Mustafa b. İlyas (185b).

The author actually calls himself not Kuyucakli but Kuyucaklizade Mehmet
Âtif, but the Library Of Congress record for this author lists the dates 1850-1898, i.e. before the composition of the
manuscript.

Scope and Content

A treatise on mathematics, being a translation of another work by the
Safavid scholar Bahā’ al-Dīń Āmilī (1547-1621). The present manuscript is
dedicated to the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II (r. 1808-1839).

Box 34

Manuscript number: 106
Title (Romanized): [Tercüme-i es-sittinü’l-câmi li-letaifi’l-besatin]
Title (English): [The translation of collected sixty of the pleasures of gardens]
Date: 1666 January

A Turkish translation of a Persian commentary on the Koranic chapter
on the prophet Joseph, the original being entitled al-sittīn al-jāmí li-laṭā’if al-
basātīn and written by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Ṭūsī (15th century). The
Turkish text was composed in 1623 (229b) during the brief second reign of the Ottoman Sultan Mustafa (i.e. 1622-23)
(1a).

Fuzulî's account of the martyrdom of the third Shiite imam
Ḥusayn ibń Alī. The text is mainly a translation of the Persian-language Rawẓat al-
shuhadā' by the Timurid author Ḥusayn Vǟizẓ Kāshifī (d. 1504 or
5.)

Additions to a poem originally composed by Sharaf al-Dīn
Muḥammad Buṣīrī (1213?-1296?) in Arabic about the qualities of the prophet
Muḥammad. The manuscript contains a shorter similar poetic exercise on the final two leaves.

The author of this book is better known to history as İsmail
İsfendiyaroğlu, brother-in-law of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II who conquered Constantinople in 1453.
İsmail wrote this book on religious precepts after the sultan removed him from the rule of the city of Sinop on the Black
Sea coast

Scope and Content

It treats religious practices and doctrine such as ablution, prayer,
mosques, and religious holidays. Translated from various sources for the benefit of "those who do not know Arabic and Persian".
Author's name contains two other words which, transliterated by Arabic standard, read "Yaman Jandār" (the second
word being Çandarlι in Turkish). The original dates to the early fifteenth-century (DP reference
below).

Kâtip Çelebi mentions four commentators in his Kashf al-
ẓunūn, but considers Sudi's best of them all, suggesting perhaps greater popularity and making the existence
of numerous manuscripts more likely. Also important is the fact that from 139b, marginalia in red ink identifies quotations
from
Şem'i and Surūrī, the other two commentators, who slightly predated Sudi--suggesting that the present
commentary has taken material from the commentary of the former two, and is therefore not them but rather a third: i.e.
Sudi's.

Scope and Content

A commentary on the Persian Būstān of
Sádī, undertaken to facilitate the task of those who set out to learn Persian, presumably by memorizing or
studying the original.

Translation and commentary of an Arabic text on the tenets and
doctrines of Islam, drawing heavily on hadith, into Turkish. First and last leaves are glued to the cover and thus hide the
identity
and date of the manuscript.

The identity of the author inferred from Osmanlι Müellifleri, V. I: 135,
as well as Kâtip Çelebi's Kashf al-ẓunūn, under the original title, where there is also noted a
commentary in Turkish by Arap Çelebi (Şemsettin ahmet b. Hamza; d. 1543 or 4)

Scope and Content

Translation into Turkish of an Arabic original composed by the fourteenth
century al-Maḥbubī, itself being an epitome of a work by al-Marghīnānī (d. 1196 or
7).

This is a Turkish translation of Ibn Khallikān's (1211-1282)
biography of Muslim notables. The translation was undertaken in 1676 and was dedicated to a vizier named Mustafa
Paşa which must be Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Paşa who served as vizier from 167683.

Box 37

Manuscript number: 122
Title (Romanized): [Tercüme-i Harîdet’ül-acayip ve feridet’ül-garaib]?
Title (English): [The translation of the Untouched among the wonders and the Unique among the curiosities]
Date: [16--]

A Turkish text about the wonders of the world. The author refers to
himself specifically as the translator. On leaf 2a, there is poem written for a certain Osman Paşa. A noted penciled in
the margins, in a late 19th/early 20th century hand, equates this person with Osman b. İskender Paşa. The
identification of the title arises from this equation and its correspondence with the relative information in Kâtip
Çelebi's Kashf al-ẓunūn.

A Turkish translation of the ethical and political treatise of
Ḥusayn Vǟiẓ Kāshifī (d. 1504 or 5.) entitled Akhlāq-i
Muḥsinī, completed (according to Kâtip Çelebi) in 1566. The manuscript contains 3 other
titles.

A treatise on a select number of Koranic verses and their exegetical
interpretation. The author had appended another treatise of his called
Ahsenü’l-hadis fi’l-ahadis il-erbain as the preface to the main title.

Box 37

Manuscript number: 125
Title (Romanized): Siret[ü’n-nebi]
Title (English): The life [of the prophet]
Alternative titles: [ﺳﻴﺮﺓ [اﻠﻦﺐی
Date: 1762 August

Islam: doctrine and belief regarding the world, God, prophets, angels,
signs of judgment day, etc. A verse translation into Turkish of the author's Maghārib al-zamān, translated also
by his brother into Turkish prose (Envar ül-âşikîn). The verse translation was completed in
August 1449.

Islam: doctrine and belief regarding the world, God, prophets, angels,
signs of judgment day, etc. A verse translation into Turkish of the author's Maghārib al-zamān, translated also
by his brother into Turkish prose (Envar ül-âşikîn). The verse translation was completed in
August 1449.

Islam: doctrine and belief regarding the world, God, prophets, angels,
signs of judgment day, etc. A verse translation into Turkish of the author's Maghārib al-zamān, translated also
by his brother into Turkish prose (Envar ül-âşikîn). The verse translation was completed in
August 1449.

Stories of the life of the prophet Muḥammad, emphasizing his
ascension to heaven. The text is based on Múin al-Din Farahī's Máārif al-nubuwwah
fī madārij al-futuwwah. As Kâtip Çeleb has noted, the present title is different from a first (and
earlier) Turkish translation of this text by Mustafa Çelebi Celâlzade.

This is Nabi's continuation of an earlier biography of the prophet
Muḥammad entitled Dürretü’t-taç and written by Veysî (1561-1628). The
manuscript also contains the continuation of this continuation by Nazmizade.

A Turkish commentary of the mystical poem of Rūmī
(13th century) written in Persian. A random search of twenty verses in this volume showed no correspondence with the index
of
verses in Nicholson's edition of the original Mathnawī. Furthermore, the given date of this present commentary's
composition (1626, during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Murat IV [1623-1640]) corresponds with an important clue in
Kâtip Çelebi's Kashf al-ẓunūn where he states that in the year 1626, Şeyh
İsmail Mevlevi came up with what he claimed to be a seventh volume of the Mathnawī, otherwise unattested,
and wrote a commentary upon it. This was hotly contested as a forgery by the majority of Şeyh İsmail's
contemporaries. It appears that the present manuscript is a copy of this spurious seventh volume.

A biography/hagiography of the thirteenth century Anatolian Sufi master
Hacι Bektaş Velî. The present manuscript has some similarities to the oldest vita of the same title
(Hacιm Sultan, 14th cent.), but comparisons with Rudolf Tschudi's 1914 Berlin edition of the latter shows many
divergences from the present manuscript.

A collection of the correspondence and Koranic exegesis of a certain
Mehmet b. Nasûhî (Hanefi Cüneydi Halveti üsküdari) originally compiled in 1702.
The manuscript also contains a short poem by a certain Mιsrî Efendi, as well as the poems of
Nasûhî.

A translation into Turkish of a Persian book called Thawāqib-i
Manāqib by Hamadānī, itself being a abridgment of Aflakī's biography of Anatolian Sufis (the
Mevlevis) entitled Manāqib al-ārifīn. The present translation was undertaken during the reign of the
Ottoman Sultan Murat III (1574-1595).

Box 43

Manuscript number: 145
Title (Romanized): Maksadu’l-aksa
Title (English): Destination of the ends of the earth
Alternative titles: ﻣﻘﺻﺩ ﺍῑﻘﺻﻰ
Date: 1840 February

A treatise on a variety of arts and sciences (medicine, interpretation of
dreams, exegesis, history, jurisprudence, etc.), collected and translated by the author from diverse sources and dedicated
to the
Ottoman Sultan Murat III (1574-1595).

A manual of ruler-ship for kings, illustrated by tales from early Islamic
history. Translated for the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamit I (1774-1789) from an Arabic original by Abd al-
Raḥmān Shayzarī (12th cent), entitled Nahj al-sulūk fī siyāsat al-
mulūk.

A collection of legal rulings on issues ranging from ritual ablution to
charitable endowments, collected by the author from the papers of his teacher Şanizade Hâc Mustafa who was
the senior clerk at the court of Mahmud Paşa.

Fuzulî's account of the martyrdom of the third Shiite imam
Ḥusayn ibn Alī. The text is mainly a translation of the Persian-language Rawẕat al-shuhadā' by the
Timurid author Ḥusayn Vǟiẓ Kāshifī (d. 1504 or 5.)

A translation from Arabic to Turkish of Minhāj al-ābidīn by Ghazzali (1058-1111), laying down regulation and guidance for
the believers. According to
Kâtip Çelebi's Kashf al-ẓunūn, the translation was undertaken in 1519.

The identity of the author inferred from Osmanlι Müellifleri, V. I: 135,
as well as Kâtip Çelebi's Kashf al-ẓunūn, under the original title, where there is also noted a
commentary in Turkish by Arap Çelebi (Şemsettin ahmet b. Hamza; d. 1543 or 4)

Scope and Content

Translation into Turkish of an Arabic original composed by the fourteenth
century al-Maḥbubī, itself being an epitome of a work by al-Marghīnānī (d. 1196 or
7).

Translation of Koranic commentary, covering chapter 67 (al-Mulk), verse
2 to the end of the Koran. Leaves missing from beginning, but spine title and note on 1a identify the manuscript as the translation
of Abū al-Layth al-Ṣamarqandī's Koranic exegesis known as the Baḥr al-ulūm.

The manuscript begins with a treatise on medicine, purportedly in 40
chapters. However, the chapter headings are not numbered after 38, and the un-dotted heading "bāb" (chapter),
continues up to 33b. Thenceforth another title begins with medical stories from Alexander and Bahram. The ending (ff. 79a
to the
end) contains several prayers and recipes.

ff. 21b-42b: A commentary on an original text about inheritance laws
written by a certain Aḥmad Qr(?)shahrī (Kιrşehri?). The manuscript contains several other
short and long treatise, in Turkish and Arabic, in several hands, and on several different kinds of papers, dealing with inheritance
and the arithmetic thereof.

Treatise on the authorities in the chain of transmission of prophetic
Hadith. Purportedly translated from an Arabic original by Muḥammad ibn Ismāī
Bukhārī (810-870). The manuscript also contains the continuation of the same text by the
translator.

The manuscript contains two brief treatises on inheritance, up to leaf 9b.
These begin with: Tereke-i meyyite hukuk-i erbaa taalûk ider. The rest of manuscript contains charts and formulas on
the rules of inheritance.

The manuscript contains two brief treatises on inheritance, up to leaf 9b,
and the first two begin: Tereke-i meyyite hukuk-i erbaa taalûk ider. The rest of manuscript contains charts and formulas
on the rules of inheritance.

Biography of the prophet Muḥammad, translated into Turkish
from an Arabic original entitled al-Mawāhib al-ladunīyah bi al-minaḥ
al-Muḥammadiyah by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Qasṭallānī (1447 or 8-1517 or
18), and dedicated to a vizier named Mehmet Paşa (3b).

The manuscript contains sections on the Umayyid, Abbasid, and
Timurid dynasties from the famous 16th century Ottoman history. There is a second title in the volume as well, a continuation
of
Ibrahim Peçevî's history, originally composed in 1651.

Translation of a treatise on prayer, originally composed by a certain
Abdürrahim Efendi. The manuscript contains eighteen other titles, all in Turkish, short and long, in prose and verse, on
religious matters including works by Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, Brigivi,
Sanūsī.

Turkish translation of Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ibn
al-Jazarī's (1350-1429) Ḥuṣn al-ḥaṣīn min kalām Sayyid al-
Mursalīn, dealing with Hadiths about prayer, charity, etc. The present translation is other than the Turkish translation of
the same original by Yahya b. Abdülkerim.

A collection of historical occurrences of unrest, written by the author for
the Ottoman Sultan Ahmet I (1603-1617). The manuscript contains another prose title, as well as copies of royal
correspondences, verse and prose works of the poet Cevrî (Ibrahim, 17th cent.), and a treatise on inheritance. The
latest date occurs on a number of leaves that may or may not have been part of any of the other fragments.

Ethical poem with stories. Several shorter prose and verse pieces are
appended to the back, including Cevahirü’l-İslam (131a) and Kitap-i İbrahim Edhem (137a-
140b). To these are added short poems (141ba-142b) dated 18 November 1790.

This a Turkish translation of the biography of Sufi masters originally
composed in Persian by Ḥusayn Vāiẓ Kāshifī (d. 1504 or 5). The translation is
dedicated to the Ottoman Sultan Murad III (r. 1574-95).

There are two records for a Vecdi who died in 1660. LOC record: Vecdi
Abdülbaki, d. 1660 credits him with a poetic anthology, and Osmanlι Müellifleri, V. I: 461 record:
Vecdī Ahmet Efendi credits him the present title.

Physical Description: Layout: 15 lines of text per page.
Script: Naskh.
Binding: Brown leather, blind-stamped; front board missing.
Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages in red; original leaves in the beginning and end separated
and
rewritten in a later hand.

Biography

Identity of the author from a 19th/early 20th century note scribbled on the cover,
accepted by DP.

Scope and Content

Apparently Darîr's biography of the prophet
Muḥammad. Two volumes bound in one.

Box 55

Manuscript number: 215
Title (Romanized): Hediyyetü’l-ihvân ve atiyyetü’s-sιbyân
Title (English): The gift of the brethren and the present of the boys
Alternative titles: هﺩﻴﺘ ﺍῑﺧﻮﺍﻦ
ﻭﻋﻄﻴﺘ ﺍﻟﺻﺐﻴاﻦ
Date: 1689 March

A translation of a Persian text entitled
Jāvīdān’nāmah, on numerology and divination, apparently a Hurufi text originally
composed by Náīmī Tabrīzī, Fazl Allāh, 1340-1394 (see DP). A brief
versified version of the same title, apparently by the same author, is appended to the end of the manuscript (ff. 265b-268a).
A
table of contents is at the beginning.

DP calls the author Elvan-i Şîrâzî (following a
penciled note by a late 19th/early 20th century hand on the inside of the front cover), and dates the composition to 1417,
i.e.
during the reign of the ottoman Sultan Murad II (r. 1421-1451).

Scope and Content

A versified translation into Turkish of an original Persian text on Sufism
by Shabistarī (Maḥmūd ibn Abd al-Karīm, d. ca. 1320.)

The present text is a selection of a commentary upon the
Gulistān of Sádī. A note in the front endpaper attributes the original commentary to Bosnavîi
Sudi (d. 1596 or 7). The author/scribe refers to the events in the year 1754, but a chronogram as well as actual digits at
the end
of the manuscript give the date October 1595, presumably the date of the original manuscript from which the copy or the
selections were made.

This a Turkish translation of the biography of Sufi masters originally
composed in Persian by Ḥusayn Vāiẓ Kāshifī (d. 1504 or 5). The translation is
dedicated to the Ottoman Sultan Murad III (r. 1574-95).

A Turkish commentary on the Koranic chapter 18 (the cave), but also
containing many stories about Moses, originally begun 1594 under the Ottoman Sultan Murad III but then dedicated (4b) to
Mehmet III (1595-1603) after the former's death.

A translation of a treatise on the rules and doctrines of Islam. DP,
following Karatay, Fehmi Edhem, Topkapi Sarayi Müzesi Kütüphanesi türkçe
yazmalar kataloğu, mss. 81, suggests that the present manuscript might be the commentary of
Burūsawī (Yáqub ibn Alī, d. 1524 or 5) on a text by Imām Zādah
(Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, 1097 or 8-1177 or 8). However, the first sentence of Burūsawī's
translation, quoted by Karatay, does not agree with the first sentence of the present manuscript. Kâtip Çelebi
too quotes a number of commentators for an Arabic book of the same title, but the first sentence of none of them matches the
present work.

This is the first of a three volume work that seems to be the Turkish
translation of the Persian Abu Muslim'nāmah of Abū Ṭāhir Tarsūsī
(Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan), and begins with the tale of Ahmet Zemci. Ire`ne Melikoff, in her Abu Muslim, le "porte-
hache" du Khorassan, dans la tradition epique turco-iranienne also refers to a Zemciname. It is a legendary account of
Abū Muslim Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Muslim (8th cent.).

Connecting the author with the title using Kâtip Çelebi's Kashf al-
ẓunūn under the original.

Scope and Content

The author gives the date 1424 and has dedicated the work to Ottoman
Sultan Murad II (Murad II (14211444 and 14451451). But Kâtip Çelebi whose Kashf al-ẓunūn
has been used to identify the title writes that the author had done the translation in 1462 and dedicated to Ottoman Sultan
Mehmet II (14441445, 14511481). If the same title, then this is a translation into Turkish verse of an Arabic original on
religious
doctrines and regulations composed by the fourteenth century al-Maḥbubī, itself being an epitome of a work
by al-Marghīnānī (d. 1196 or 7).

A penciled note from the 19th or early 20th century as underlined and question-marked
a phrase in the second hemistiches of the first verse of 6a as possibly the author's name (The full name being Muradî
Âbidî. DP accepts this.

Scope and Content

A Turkish translation in verse of ShiŔat al-Islām by
Imām Zādah (Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, 1097 or 8-1177 or 8). The original was composed in
1511, during the reign of Ottoman Sultan Beyazid II (14811512).

Box 59

Manuscript number: 238
Title (Romanized): [Şerh-i Virdü’s-settar]
Title (English): [Commentary on the Rose of the one who veils]
Alternative titles: [Sharḥ Ward al-sattār]
Date: [18--]

A Turkish commentary on a Turkish text on the required deeds for all
those who are on the [Sufi] path (83b) originally composed by Ömer Fuâdî, 1560-1636. This text is
itself copied on the leaves following the commentary. The manuscript also contains several shorter tractae by Ömer
Fuâdî, Abdullah b. Mehmet Mιsrîι, and Ibn al-Arabī (1165-
1240).

Osmanlι Müellifleri, V. I: 350-351 gives the full name of the original
author as well as the full title. Kâtip Çelebi says that the original author was son of (Abdullatîf ibn
Melek, fl. 1392). Furthermore, the author of the present translation gives the full name of the author as:
Ferişteoğlu Abdullatîf'in Oğlu Mehmet. This latter form of the name, as well as the death
date, resembles closely the LOC record of a certain Abdulmecîd ibn Ferişte (fl. 1450), who, along with
Abdullatîf ibn Melek is credited for the writing of a dictionary entitled Luğat-i
Ferişteoğlu.

Scope and Content

A Turkish translation of a book on the wonders of the world originally
composed by İbn Melekzade Mehmet Efendi d. 1450.

The present form of the author's name from Osmanlι Müellifleri, V. III:
285. The author gives the name as Osman b. Mehmet Muvakkιt. The present form of the name of the second author is
derived from Osmanlι Müellifleri, V. III: 280.

Scope and Content

Treatise on astronomy/astrology and related mathematics. The
manuscript contains a second title, as well as several charts and notes appended to the end.

Arabic treatise attributed to the early Islamic mystic Ḥasan al-
Baṣrī. The manuscript contains several other short and long titles such as the Hadîs-i
Erba’in, Faḍā’il al-Makkah, Cehdname-i Mağribi, Şerh-i esmai’l-
hüsna, and Risle-i ehl-i sünnet, etc.

A notebook including poems by Hasîb Efendi, Sâbit,
Ruşenî, Za’îfî, and Yunus Emre; prayers; religious rulings; names of the men who
fought in the battle of Badr with the Prophet Muḥammad; letters; treatises; etc.

Physical Description: Layout: 19 lines of text per page.
Script: Naskh, Nastálῑq, and Dīwānī.
Binding: Burgundy leather, blind-stamped, with fore-edge flap, and pink paste-downs.
Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, marked passages in red, mostly enclosed in red borders; some marginalia; the
second title used to be an independent and separately paginated manuscript which has been cut and rebound with the first
title.

Scope and Content

This is an anonymous Turkish translation of the Sufi work entitled
Maqṣad al-Aqṣá by Nasafī (Azīz al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad, 13th
cent.). The manuscript also contains a second title, as well as short or longer poem in between the two titles as well as
the
end.

A history of Ottoman Egypt from the conquest of Sultan Selim I
(15121520) to 1621, being a continuation of the author's other work entitled ed-Dürretü’l-
yetîme fî evsâf-i Mιsri’l-kadîme (see Osmanlι
Müellifleri, V. III: 131).

Collection of poems, the first apparently added later
and dated to June 1692 (6b). Some may be the work of Akşemseddin, 1389 or 90-1459 (16a and front
endpaper). Headings in red refer to Jonah (Yunus).

A Sufi treatise, being a translation of a Persian
original by Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Ayn al-Qudāh al-Hamadhānī (d. 1131),
dedicated to a certain Celal Bey, for whom the author had also translated
Aṭṭār’s Mukhtār’nāmah, during the reign of Ottoman
Sultan Selim II (15661574).

Marginal note in the same hand as the text has the
phrase "Thus says Behişti in Edirne" at the beginning of the book. This may
or may not be the author, and whether this is the same as Behişti, Ramazan bin
Abdu’l-Muhsin (d. 1571 or 2) is uncertain.

The author refers to himself as Nahifi (75a), but this
is merely the accusative form of the word nahif, used by the author as a term of humility.
Author identified from Kâtip Çelebi's Kashf al-ẓunūn.

Scope and Content

This is the second title in the
manuscript, being a Turkish translation of the Arabic original of Ghazzālī, 1058-1111
written for the guidance of the believers. The first text is untitled, and is also a
Turkish translation of an Arabic text which is written in red ink. Very short illustrated
treatise at the end.

Full name of the author from Karatay, F. E. Topkapι Sarayι
Müzesi Kütüphanesi türkce yazmalar kataloğu, 1040 and
index.

Scope and Content

A Turkish rendering of the work of Hanafite
jurisprudence entitled al-Fiqh al-akbar by Abū Ḥanīfah (d. 767 or 8), originally
translated in 1741 (2a). The present manuscript is a copy from the autograph (46b). The
manuscript contains a second title.

The name of the author appears as Cemaleddin Halvetî on
1b, but self-references in the text only occur as Cemali. If correctly identified, he is
also known as Çelebi Halife. See Osmanlι Müellifleri, V. I: 80-
81.

Tales of prophets extracted and translated
from an Arabic original entitled Badā’í al-zuhūr fī waqā’í
al-duhūr by Ibn Iyās (1448-ca. 1524). The first forty leaves of the manuscript
cover the creation of the universe. The tales of the prophets begin on 41b with the repetition of the
poem that also opens 1b. A note in a later hand on 1a says that the author(?) had written the
forty-third leaf in his own hand.

See Osmanlι Müellifleri, V. II: 384. The second title
(Hadis-i Erba’in) is in verse, and at least two authors have been credited with
such a composition with this title. These are Kemalpaşazade (1468 or 9-1534) and
Okcuzade Mehmet Şahî (d. 1629). See Karatay, F. E. Topkapι Sarayι
Müzesi Kütüphanesi türkce yazmalar kataloğu, in the index under
the title (2874 and 2979).

Scope and Content

A short poem on the praise of the prophet and
his mysteries, being a translation of Burdah of al-Būṣīrī.
The manuscript contains two other titles.

A book of Hadith translated into Turkish and divided
into 16 chapters, covering such topics as faith, miracles, the virtues of the
Koran, prayer, charity, etc. It may be a translation of the Arabic text entitled Jamí al-fawā’id
min Jāmí al-uṣul wa-Majmá al-zawā’id written by Rudānī
(Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1627 or 8-1682 or 3). There are two very short treatises
on dream interpretation and the Koran appended to the end.

Turkish commentary and translation of an Arabic
original on the science of Koranic recitation by Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, ca. 1522-1573. However, information in
Kâtip Çelebi's Kashf al-ẓunūn as well as the
phrase "Translation of the commentary of al-Rumi" on the paper cover suggest that the
present translation is of the commentary written on Birgivî's work by a certain Ahmet
Faiz Rumi and entitled "al-Muṣannaf".

A Turkish translation of a commentary on the
first chapter of the Koran. The manuscript contains other titles such as
Vasiyet and Risale-i ücret by Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, (ca. 1522-1573), Tercüme-i
mukaddeme-i Ibn el-Cezeri fi tecvid, Tercüme-i kitabi’t-tecvid fî kelami’l-
mecid.

Medical treatise translated from Persian into
Turkish for the Ottoman Sultan Süleyman I (the Magnificent) (15201566). Note in pencil at the foot of 1b
equates this text with the Shifā’ of Ibn Sīnā. The manuscript
contains a second title.

Connecting the author with the title using Kâtip
Çelebi's Kashf al-ẓunūn under the original.

Scope and Content

The author gives the date 1424 and has dedicated the
work to Ottoman Sultan Murad II (Murad II (14211444 and 14451451). But Kâtip Çelebi whose
Kashf al-ẓunūn has been used to identify the title writes that the author had
done the translation in 1462 and dedicated to Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II (14441445, 14511481). If the same
title, then this is a translation into Turkish verse of an Arabic original on
religious doctrines and regulations composed by the fourteenth century al-
Maḥbubī, itself being an epitome of a work by al-Marghīnānī (d. 1196 or
7).

This a Turkish translation of the biography of
Sufi masters originally composed in Persian by Ḥusayn
Vāiẓ Kāshifī (d. 1504 or 5). The translation is dedicated to the
Ottoman Sultan Murad III (r. 1574-95). A quire containing the beginning of this title from another manuscript
is laid in

Form of author's name as wel as his death date from
Osmanlι Müellifleri, V. I: 416, but the author notes that he had begun the work in 1591, and it
seems unlikely that he lived another 70 years after that.

Scope and Content

An exposition on religious matters with ample
stories and references to the hadith and the Koran.

A Turkish translation of al-
Sab‘īyāt fī mawā‘iẓ al-barrīyāt originally
composed in Arabic by ‘Ayn al-Quḍāh, Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd
Raḥmān, 16th cent. regarding the days of the week and their religious importance
(supported by Koranic stories). This may or may not be the Turkish version
attributed by Kâtip Çelebi's Kashf al-ẓunūn to a certain Mehmet Hilali
Kadι, entitled Meclisara (Majlis'āra), completed in 1588. The manuscript
contains two other titles.